Remember the old “Mean” Gene Okerlund hotline days from WCW?
Cody Rhodes does.
During a recent appearance on the WWE After The Bell podcast, “The American Nightmare” spoke about how he would bring back the hotlines if it were up to him.
“Here is what I would love to bring back, and maybe you guys know somebody who could do this,” he said. “If I had any smidge of power, I would bring back the hotline.”
Rhodes continued, “I would absolutely bring back the hotline. You can now do it as a text line, essentially, but there were real scoops, occasionally, on the hotline. Or, they were vague enough to where, if you were a fan, you knew. ‘Oh, he’s talking about Big Boss Man.’”
He would go on to further elaborate on how he would host the hotline himself if it were brought back.
“The hotline, I get it that it was a cash grab,” he said. “‘Pay X amount of money.’ I get that. Maybe we lessen that part to an extent. I would host the weekly hotline. I want to drop five things. Say I drop three things, one of them is real. You have to wade through it all. ‘See, you should be following the hotline.”
Check out the complete interview at Apple.com. H/T to Fightful.com for transcribing the above quotes.
